We would like to go back - partly to do a group performance tour, but also as an opportunity for our company members to continue with their professional development and actually go to India and experience bharata natayam dance where it originated," she says.

According to Bharata, for example, "Spectators who feel joy when there is joy, and who feel sorrow when there is sorrow, are known to become depressed when it's a depressing play" (dainye dinatvam ayanti te natye preksakah smrtah I ye tustau tustim aydnti soke sokam vrajanti ca) (Natyasastra 27.

Shobana went on to use the choreographic reference points from contemporary dance to the South Indian dance form Bharata Natyam that she has been creating work with for more than 20 years to make Faultline.

They examine the migration of dance, the ways members of African American gangs walk, the process of abstraction in building and understanding gesture, kinesthesia as embodied cultural knowledge, gesture and inscription in experimental cinema, Michaux and the writing body, performance and migration of cinematic gesture (with Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Good Men, Good Women as the case study), contemporary Indian Dance (considering the work of Bharata Natyam), and the mimesis entangled in dance in the tension between writing and dance.

WESTBORO - Westboro High School junior Shweta Athilat was given the opportunity to perform the classical Indian Dance Bharata Natyam in front of a crowd of more than 300 people last month at Ashland High School, where she performed her Arangetram, or graduation performance.

Appearing with a different musical quartet, her trilogy of timerelated pieces used the classical repertoire of Bharata Natyam to express extremely diverse feelings - notably in the third piece, an evocation of the riverside in Benares, where vignettes ranged from lovers meeting at sunset to a mother mourning her dead son.

The first and second are Gujarati language proverbs, the third is a Marathi language proverb, the fourth is a quote in Sanskrit language from the Isha Upanishada [stanza 15] a Hindu scripture, and the fifth, again in Sanskrit, is a quote from the Bhagavad Gita [stanza 48, chapter 18] which is a quintessential philosophical part in one of the chapters of the great epic Maha Bharata.

From 1977 through 1981 he spent five years at the Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, a remote ashrama in the Himalayas, working as the assistant editor for the English monthly Prabuddha Bharata (Awakened India) while continuing his monastic training.

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